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The video and song begins a blurry image is shown. the only thing you can make out for the first few seconds is spinning ambulance sirens. Then image sharpens to show the scene of recent car accident. There is in ambulance and a mangled looking red sports car. Billy is all bandaged up, cut up and bruised. He looks horrified and sad as the paramedics drag a girl's lifeless, bloody body from the driver's seat. The coroner is seen zipping up her body in a body bag. This is has happened during the night. After this, the video cuts to Billy walking past the band as they play in old dirty apartment building. As he walks (similar to the "Ava Adore" Video when they show him in full motion) past them and he is headed towards a wall, he sings "Speed Kills and beauty lives forever". As that weird sound plays, Billy walks through the wall and into an alley. He has a ghostly aura around him and steam is coming up from a near by sewer great. Every time the sound is played, Billy walks through walls into another environment. When he starts to sing "When I ride with you tonight, we could move at the speed of light", the first time, there is a flashback, it first shows a crane type shot of the red sports car speeding on a freeway, then focuses in on the car. The scene in the looks like it's a dream, everything looks kind of fuzzy and has a whitish glow to it. Billy is the passenger seat and the girl is the driver's seat and looks at Billy briefly. Then the video cuts to Billy kneeling on grass, looking up at the sky, the camera focuses on the top half his body, holding one hand up to his chest. He sings "The last rose of summer, last rose of summer is gone." Cut to Billy singing in an abandoned building with the band playing. He sings "crashing upon a desert plain" as he stands in front of of long fluorescent light that is hanging by a thread basically. After Billy starts to pass it, it comes crashing down to the floor, sparks flying. It also cuts to images of when they first met, the girl looks depressed and Billy cheers her up and so forth. As it goes back to the chorus, the video cuts the dreamy look with the two of them in the car, the girl speeds up again, much to Billy's dismay. Then we see the car passing one of those Billboard's that says "Speed Kills" on it. Then you see the image of a red rose and then Billy singing "the last rose of summer is gone, long gone" and then he drops a wilted rose on the ground. The video once again moves to the scene the Billy and the girl in the car. All of sudden we see the ever growing white light in the wind shield, eventually turning into blinding white light. The video cuts to Billy passing a youthful girl standing like a manequin in a glass case slightly risen above the ground (forever young and maintaining her innocence-note: a warped version of a Catcher In the Rye reference =)). This as he sings "Forever young, forever bright, to the stars, we die tonight". The story comes to close as we now see that there were two cars, one being the speeding red sports car in a car crash. The occupant of the other car is dead as well. The ambulance begins to arrive. The video cuts to Billy singing up to the sky again, and tears start to stream down his face and he lays a fresh red rose on the girls grave. It is implied that Billy's character feels that he is really dead at heart, he has died because he is no longer whole; he has lost the love of his life.The song ends and the video fades out, Billy is rejoins the band, all of them all dressed in plain dark clothing, as they walk away from the grave site. By David Pukin david@2007.org A rose blooms as the song begins to build. Once it does the camera pulls back to reveal it blooms on a roadside at night. A car passes just as the lyrics begin. It's a convertible. The driver is too difficult to make out, for it's a black car, with black upholstrey and he wears black. Next to him is a woman. She has black hair, but her very red dress makes her quite visible. She leans back, arms spread, eyes closed. [We can move at the speed of light] The camera lowers from an overhead shot to a frontal shot and the car drives right into the camera so that the camera goes right into the headlight. It remains bright until. [First time that i ever saw you] the woman is dancing the tango with a man at a party. She still wears the red dress, and she has a rose in her mouth. As the chorus begins, she's back in the car. [Instrumental Section] Back to the dancing scene, we see Billy there, in the BG. He's almost not noticable, just one of the crowd, and he doesn't stand out at all. The others are there too, same way of not standing out. After the vocals cut off the last of time, we go back to the car. It swerves and impacts with a tree. As it hits we see the woman explode into rose petals. They clear to go back to the rose we saw first. It slowly wilts as the music fades, and Billy picks the dead rose, as the others wait in a car. He gets in the back with Melissa and James drives off into the night. By phaen@geocities.com |
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